Mathematical Quotes · Page 23

Spending time with math people is a lot of fun. As a result of the play, I've had semi-drunken dinners with mathematicians…

— David Auburn

[Lord Brougham's writings on the bee's cell contain] as striking examples of bad reasoning as are often to be met with in…

— James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise…

— Steven Strogatz

To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God,…

— Hilda Phoebe Hudson

Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.

— Edward Kasner

I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries,…

— Freeman Dyson

Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.

— Claude Fayette Bragdon

Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.

— G. H. Hardy

. . . She knew only that if she did or said thus-and-so, men would unerringly respond with the complimentary thus-and-so. It…

— Margaret Mitchell

It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so…

— Bill Gaede

With respect to why some acquired savants are musical, and some are good at the arts, and some are mathematical, why aren't…

— Darold Treffert

A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an…

— Johannes Kepler

Experience has shown repeatedly that a mathematical theory with a rich internal structure generally turns out to have significant implications for the…

— William Thurston

Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications…

— Alfred North Whitehead

If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical…

— Edmund Husserl

I was appalled to find that the mathematical notation on which I had been raised failed to fill the needs of the…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

How many times have I wondered if it is really possible to forge links with a mass of people when one has…

— Antonio Gramsci

Time is said to have only one dimension, and space to have three dimensions. ... The mathematical quaternion partakes of both these…

— William Rowan Hamilton

As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do…

— Blaise Pascal

Cell and tissue, shell and bone, leaf and flower, are so many portions of matter, and it is in obedience to the…

— D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will…

— Blaise Pascal

The development of mathematics toward greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so…

— Kurt Gödel

It has long been my personal view that the separation of practical and theoretical work is artificial and injurious. Much of the…

— Christopher Strachey

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

— Isaac Barrow

I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.

— William Petty

A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem.

— Atle Selberg

The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses ...

— Farkas Bolyai

It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used.

— Philip Emeagwali

Mathematics is not a deductive science, that's a cliché ... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

— Paul Halmos

Mathematical objects are determined by - and understood by - the network of relationships they enjoy with all the other objects of…

— Barry Mazur

Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and…

— Mary Somerville

A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to…

— David Hilbert

The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fact that you are even here, alive, on this planet is a mathematical miracle, and you should not spend the time…

— Philip DeFranco

Religious truth is not false for being narrow any more than mathematical or scientific truth is false for the same reason.

— Max Anders

Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending…

— Marcus du Sautoy

Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry…

— Edward Kasner

I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be…

— Edward Charles Titchmarsh